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It might not ship as many units as the iPhone or the iPad, but Apple TV continues to gain ground in the connected TV market. During today’s earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company sold 1.3M units of the device in its fourth quarter, ending with 5.3M total sold over the last 12 months — not bad for a device that Apple has considered a “hobby” over the… Read More

YouTube added a new way for users to promote their videos and channels today, with the launch of a new feature called InVideo Promotion. The feature was detailed on the YouTube Creator blog, where YouTube Product Manager Michael Rucker provided some example use cases for creators. Read More

The main focus of Boxfish is to replace the cable box’s electronic programming guide, or EPG. Anyone who has sat there on the couch and scrolled through the guide — and that’s all of you — knows that it’s a painful process. “The EPG is a joke,” co-founder Eoin Dowling told me. And so the Boxfish team set out to build something better. Read More

PageWoo seeks to solve a number of problems for mobile marketers: It is at once a content-generation engine, as well as a multi-image testing platform. It can target ads based on location and even on the weather. Oh, and did I mention that it provides detailed analytics that can be used to better target those ads. Read More

Condition One enables video producers to capture and share what typical video products miss, with a 180-degree field of vision. It’s recently expanded its seed round to $2.35 million, coming from Mark Cuban, who invested prior to Demo Day, as well as Manilla CEO George Kliavkoff and other angels. Read More

Netflix’s third-quarter 2012 earnings report just came out, with revenue reaching $905 million for the quarter, up from $822 million last year. It’s also in line with Wall Street’s consensus forecast of $904 million. It reported earnings per share of $0.13, compared to $1.16 last year and above analyst expectations of $0.05 a share. Read More

Tely Labs has added new features to its conferencing suite and pitching its wide-angle video cameras up-market, to a new set of customers who might pay a little more than the average consumer. And it’s raised some funding — $15 million from Comcast Ventures and Rogers Ventures Partners — to take its low-cost conferencing equipment to market. Read More

Tablets and PCs sporting the new operating system will also have access to some broadcast TV content from Hulu Plus, as well. On the company’s blog today, Hulu announced that it will be launching its Windows 8 app on October 26, the same day that devices running the Microsoft operating system will finally become available. Read More

By integrating with LinkedIn, Blue Jeans will allow users to use their social network credentials to sign in. Once they’ve connected, other users they are video conferencing with will be able to see their headshot, bio, and other information stored on LinkedIn, as it will be automatically uploaded to their Blue Jeans profile. Read More

In the ultra-competitive video conferencing market, Vidyo is announcing some stuff today which will blow away the competition and will provide new, best-in-class tools for users who want to do video conferencing and will make enterprise-grade video conferencing at affordable price points a reality for the first time ever, Read More

Ride sharing isn’t just for San Francisco anymore. Fresh on the heels of securing $10 million in new funding, SideCar is ready to start its expansion into new markets. In an email sent to the SideCar community this morning, the company announced plans to enter Seattle within the next several weeks. Read More

I bet Google is having a worse day than you are. First it was its earnings being leaked by its printer. Then it was a product announcement that leaked before its embargo. And now, YouTube is down. Right before Google’s earnings call, which is hosted on — yep, you guessed it — YouTube. Read More

YesVideo has made that sharing even easier, with Facebook integration that lets users post their vintage videos directly on their Timelines. With the integration, users will be able to title, time-stamp, and add metadata to a piece of content and it will appear in the year in which it was shot. That will allow customers to pinpoint the exact date that certain milestones or events happened. Read More

Lyft is so popular you can barely catch a ride through the service anymore. Well, it’s trying to solve that problem through a number of initiatives, including an increase in driver supply, as well as a few updates to the service that will reduce the number of new users and cancellations that it sees. Read More

Beauty Army launched on January 1 with a simple idea, create a way to connect its users with beauty products that they’ll love. Now it’s adding health and wellness products to that objective. To tackle that $170 billion market, the startup is adding partners like Mighty Leaf Tea and Immuno-Viva, among others and offering their samples and products to users. Read More

Selectable Media lets publishers better monetize their games and other content by creating incentives to watch high-CPM video advertising. All they need to do is place a piece of Javascript code in their website or app and Selectable Media will offer viewers the chance to unlock content by choosing to watch a video ad. It’s raised $2 million in Series A funding from Avalon Ventures. Read More

It’s been a few months since App.net launched its new social platform, and the company has gotten some good feedback from developers. While not nearly the size of Facebook or Twitter, the company has has a couple dozen apps already. Today, App.net announced a new way for users* to discover and download apps to use on its platform. The App.net Directory
App.net clearly wants to… Read More

Deluxis is trying to build an a la carte TV service online that where consumers will be able to pick and choose the channels they want to watch online. Rather than paying upwards of $100 a month for a bundle of hundreds of channels that users never watch, they’ll be able to purchase the five or six channels they actually want, paying for each individually. Read More

AdRise hopes to bring more video to connected devices, by building cross-platform apps that can be watched on multiple platforms. It’s also built an ad delivery service for monetization. With that in mind, it’s raised a $2 million funding round led by Foundation Capital to expand its personnel and go after the burgeoning streaming video market. Read More

Tagged is continuing its acquisition tear, having made its fifth purchase of the past two years. This time, it’s acquiring location-based mobile discovery app Urbantag, and adding co-founders Andrew Hoag and Emma Van Niekerk to its team. As part of the deal, Hoag will take over as Director of Product and Van Niekerk will become Director of Design. Meanwhile, the Urbantag app will… Read More